RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN MILITARY TREATIES OF THE XV AND XVI 

Author: VERA BOTI, ALFREDO 
Year: 2000. 
University: UNIVERSIDAD PIOLITECNICA DE VALENCIA. 
Reading Center: ESCUELA TECNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA. 

Abstract: 
This thesis of the above prior to the Military Architecture of the XV and XVI. Proceed to the analysis of the European Treaties used for the manufacture of their buildings. Studies have been 42 separate treaties with a total of 166 successive editions identified two centuries, plus 21 unreleased at the time. Of these have been collected the most relevant contributions.
The thesis is divided into 10 sections under the following headings:
Introduction 
Written record, 
Other previous 
Treatises (manuscript and published texts of the time) 
Contributions of writers, 
Military architecture real work, 
Military City versus ideal City
Elucidatory (study of the evolution and meaning of the architectural elements that make up the Military Architecture) 
Conclusions and 
Bibliography 
plus five indexes or records of matters relating to places (Topographic), people (Onomastic), construction (Architectural) and cases (Topic).
The study is correlated to the different subjects treated with the historical and cultural realities of the period (contributions ideological and philosophical, literary, design and technology, etc.) to reach definitive conclusions. 
In short, the determination of the foregoing, rationalism, regularity, auxiliary techniques, machines and engines, construction systems, the study of architectural elements, the cultural significance of Trattati, military architecture and city building strategy and finally, the cultural content of the treaties, and military architecture as a strategy for building the city and, on the ideal city in response to the isotropy of the territory. 
The main contributions can be summarized in the following: the location and custody of both handwritten and published sources at the time, reliance on military architectural theory with the local culture and history, reconsolidation in the Military Architecture of the dialectic between Neoplatonism and Aristotelianism, linking the theoretical with the outbreak  of Pesaro (occurred after the War of Siena), setting a precise terminology for military architecture of the XV and XVI, to the evolutionary study of the same etc.; all facets them to pave the way for further research on the history of Building (on materials, construction systems, special foundations, essays on soil quality, etc.), a comparative analysis (with subsequent treaties of the past, or for development of a general history of the Military Architecture of the Renaissance, supplemented by other research fields parallel to it (studies of drawings, prints and military cards that are stored in many files, etc.) with the actual works.